open.spotify.com webplayer stops playing music after 9 seconds

[tweekzor]

Today the new webplayer open.spotify.com was pushed to me again instead of the old (working) play.spotify.com. After selecting some music I pressed play, but every songs just freezes after playing exactly 9 seconds. The music stops, but the player doesn't show anything, it just pretends it keeps playing. I have to refresh the page to be able to play music again, for 9 seconds only. The browser I use to play music is Google Chrome 58.0.3029.41 beta on Windows 7, without any extensions or add-ons.

[DarkGuy1001]

I also have this issue at exactly 9 seconds. I am on windows 10 and Chrome 58.0.3029.41 beta just like you.

[deadfly]

It doesn't work at all for me in Firefox/Linux 14.04

There's just a message at the top saying 'something went wrong'

...and yes, thee old play.spotify.com was working fine

[justbeez]

Same issue here, exactly 9 seconds.  Windows 10, Google Chrome 58.0.3029.41 beta-m.

I'm a Web developer, so I'm going to go into a little more detail here. The new player is clearing using the new media playback APIs so it doesn't rely in Flash anymore in modern browsers.  Most segmented media files use 10-second segments, so I'm guessing that's what we're dealing with—it's loading the first media fragment and then failing to load the next one.

It looks like there's a JavaScript error being thrown: "Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: The play() request was interrupted by a new load request." (a._loadProtectedTrack @ web-player.e7aa634f.js:27)

I tried testing this in Microsoft Edge, but it looks like that browser is still being directed to use play.spotify.com—but actually fails to work there either because of a completely different error.

Seems like the Spotify team needs some better QA processes.

[Gothog]

i`m have the same issue here.
Chrome  58.0.3029.41 beta (64-bit)

[tweekzor]

Thanks for the useful input. 🙂 I am receiving a lot of "net::ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE" and a "503 (Service unavailable: back-end server is at capacity)" if I check the console when trying to playback music.

[Kaefel]

It doesn't work with me at all as well. It just says 'something went wrong'. I feel like moving to another service, this issue is going on for too long.

[tweekzor]

You can switch back to the old web player by changing your browsers user agent string. Chrome has multiple extensions that can do this for you. By changing your user agent to

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1866.237 Safari/537.36"

you can load https://play.spotify.com instead of the terrible https://open.spotify.com again without being redirected.

[deadfly]

For anybody else on Linux/Firefox I solved this by upgrading to the latest versions.

[robertnik]

Desktop player ma ten sam problem.